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‘Review of Lrogress 
In The 
Public Schools 
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‘Warren County 





COMPILED BY 


J. EDWARD ALLEN 


County Superintendent of Education 


From Ratings by the State Department of Education, received 


to Sept. 1, 1926, and From Data on File in the Office of the 


Superintendent in the Court Hiouse at Warrenton, North 


Carolina. 


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[Am Educa tion 


I BEAR THE TORCH that enlightens the world, 
fires the imagination of man, feeds the flame of 
genius. I give wings to dreams and might to hand 
and brain. 


From out the deep shadows of the past I come, 
wearing the scars of struggle and the stripes of toil, 
but bearing in triumph the wisdom of all ages. Man, 
because of me, holds dominion over earth, air and sea; 
it is for him I leash the lightning, plumb the deep and 
shackle the ether. 


I am the parent of progress, creator of culture, 
molder of destiny. Philosophy, science and art are 
the works of my hand. I banish ignorance, discourage 
vice, disarm anarchy. 


Thus have I become freedom’s citadel, the arm of 
democracy, the hope of youth, the pride of adolescence, 
the joy of age. Fortunate the nations and happy the 
homes that welcome me. 


The school is my workshop; here I stir ambitions, 
stimulate ideals, forge the keys that open the door to 
opportunity. I am the source of inspiration; the aid 
of aspiration. 


I am irresistible power. 





Board of Education 


WARREN COUNTY 


JESSE GARDNER, A. B., Chairman 
MISS AMMA D. GRAHAM, A. B. 

J. K. PINNELL 

J. D. RIGGAN 


F. B. NEWELL * 
STANLEY W. POWELL + 


J. EDWARD ALLEN, A. M., 


ex officio Secretary 


MISS EDNA ALLEN, * Resigned. 
Statistical and Financial Officer + Nominated in June Primary. 


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OUR RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS 


It is the purpose of the school administration, in the report 
following, to render an account to the owners of our care of 
their interests in the great business of conducting successfully 
their school system. We have attempted to give our people the 
best possible, and at the ie aggregate expense. 


Of these ee we are proud: first, a corps of 
teachers in our grades who are really equipped to teach, and to 
carry on effectively the process of education of the youth of the 
county. We are but little troubled with foolish flapperism among 
our teachers; with dangerous religious views, not at all. 

Second, we have a system of high schools that is both effec- 
tive and accessible. It is not uncommon for sixty per cent of our 
graduates to enter college, though we do not operate these schools 
primarily for college preparation. Practically every high school 
boy or girl in the county can attend high school without expense 
until ready to enter college, as a result of consolidation and 
transportation. Vocational education goes hand in hand with 
cultural. 

Third, we have a system of permanent records of the work, 
vital facts and environment of each pupil who enters the schools, 
and of those not in school also, which is as near perfect as that of 
any county in the State. We have in the courthouse these records 
by races as a county unit, and another set by schools. Each 
school of high school grade has a duplicate set of the same. What 
each child has done, and the conditions under which he has done 
it, are matters of perpetual record. 

Fourth, we have the co-operation of the people of the county 
in our program of better schools, to what we believe has hitherto 
been an unprecedented degree. We have not forced transportation 


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upon any district, or consolidation, against the expressed wishes 
of the people or the authorities concerned. Our difficulty has 
been to provide all of the facilities that have been asked for. The 
people of Warren County have been cheerfully willing to make 
sacrifice of comfort and means to provide better education. Bar- 
barously bad streaks of red mud, masquerading under the polite 
name of roads, have not deterred them; distance has not stopped 
the demand for better schools. Scores of children ride 30 to 35 
miles per day to get their fair Oph On in the life of the com- 
ing decades. 

Fifth, our Negro population, which comprises the largest per- 
centage among the counties of the State, being 64.2 per cent, is 
contented in a sense of fair treatment. Of the 42 Negro schools, 
25 are modern Rosenwald buildings, twelve have been recently 
remodeled and three others are in fair condition, leaving two that 
are disreputable. Following a squabble five years ago, the Ridge- 
way building, a Rosenwald house, was destroyed by fire of incen- 
diary origin and has not been rebuilt, because of lack of funds. 
We will not employ any teacher who with reason is suspected of 
entertaining improper ideas of the relations between the races. 


COUNTY RANKS LOW IN SCHOOL EXPENDITURES 

In school expenditures, our county is far down the list, being 
69 from the top among the 100 counties. That is, only thirty- — 
one counties have a lower expenditure record than Warren, while 
68 have a higher expenditure than we. For 1924-25, the last year 
of compiled figures, ours is $18.81 per pupil, while in the highest, 
New Hanover, it is $46.42, and in Caswell county, the lowest, it 
is $16.66. We are $21.61 lower than the highest and only $2.15 
above the lowest. 

This is extremely significant when we remember that our 
white teachers receive salaries higher than those of any other 
county in the State except eight. It means that the money goes 
for actual teaching rather than for other matters. The average 
monthly salary of teachers in the grades and departments of the 
white schools is $98.26, and the average teacher of the grades has 
33 children in her room. 


Our current expenses for schools are lower than those of any 


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We have five Accredited High Schools; three others are not standard, 
but of five or more teachers; five schacls of two teachers, each confined to 
six grades except one or two emergency cases; and six one-teacher schools 
confined in the main to the first four or five grades. Each high school has a 
music teacher, and there are twe' vocational teachers. 


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other county in the State except 15; rank, 85. Of every dollar 
of our school money, 79 cents goes for teaching, one and three- 
quarters cents for administration, and 1934, cents for operation 
and maintenance, transportation, fuel, janitors, furniture, sup- 
plies and all items of this class. 

Our white school property in Warren County is estimated to 
be worth $325,000, and the colored buildings and grounds $75,000. 
This represents $165 per pupil of enrollment, against $109.99 two 
years earlier. In Washington county in the same year, there was 
$258 worth of school property per pupil, which is the highest in 
the State, and in Cherokee, $21, which is the lowest. It will be 
seen by comparison that our children are well housed. 


RESULTS OBTAINED GIVE WARREN HIGH RATING 

Remembering that our expenditures per pupil are lower than 
those of 87 of the 100 counties, we next see some noteworthy 
results: 

1. The scholarship of our white teachers is higher than those 
of any other county in the State except six: Durham, Currituck, 
Wilson, Gaston, Guilford and Mecklenburg alone surpass us, ac- 
cording to the State’s canvass of teachers’ certificates in all of 
the counties. We have no teachers with non-standard certificates. 

2. We have a greater percentage of our pupils in high school 
than any other county in the State except five of the 100. The © 
University of North Carolina announces to the world in the News 
Letter that we have more high school graduates per thousand of 
population than any other county except six. 

3. It is pointed out elsewhere that our average white child 
goes to a school with a term of 159 days. The proposed ‘Eight 
Months Term” legislation will benefit us only by taking the bur- 
den of taxation off of the local district and giving it to the State 
or other large unit. 

4. 'Tables on another page show that only an even dozen of 
the counties have fewer retarded children, or children too old for 
the grades they are prepared for, than Warren. This bespeaks 
good home surroundings, good ancestry, good school work, com- 
petent teaching. 

5. Our colored schools are well handled. Only six counties 


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have colored teachers with higher certification than ours, whereas 
in 62 counties it costs more per pupil to operate the colored schools 
than in Warren. 


6. The publication of “State School Facts’? declares that in 
“Teaching Positions in Elementary Schools,” Warren county 
ranks third from the top. This means that, from the teacher’s 
point of view, three counties offer more desirable teaching posi- 
tions. Therefore, we are able to obtain excellent teaching at the 
State salary schedule. From the point of view of pupil, taxpayer 
and parent, it means that two counties only of the hundred give 
the pupil a better opportunity to get the full attention of the 
teacher, where a teacher handles one grade only or the minimum 
amount of conflict of work. 


ONLY 13TH FROM TOP IN CAROLINA 

7. In the issue of September 1, of “State School Facts,’’ the 
measure of efficiency of the school systems of all of the counties 
is given, wherein it is discovered that Warren county ranks 
higher than all other counties in the State except thirteen, or 
that 86 other counties rank lower than ours. To accomplish this 
while our current expenditure record is lower than that of 68 
other counties means a record not to be apologized for. 


TAX RATE LOW BY STATE COMPARISIONS 

8. Facts prove the tax rate for-schools in Warren County is 
lower than in any other county in the State except four. Of 
course there are township road taxes and district school taxes; 
but all other counties with but few exceptions have the same. 
This low tax rate is doubly significant when we remember that 
the taxable wealth per inhabitant in Warren is less than that in 
0 of the 100 counties of the State. Wein Warren have only $661 
worth of property per inhabitant, as against $1930 in Durham 
county, the highest, and $465 in Wilkes, the lowest. There is 
only $1823 yer pupil of schcol enrollment, on which taxes can be 
collected for the education of that child, in Warren county, which 
is less than in any other county in the State except six. Ninety- 
three counties have more property to be taxed to pay for the 
education of each child than we have. The highest is Forsyth, in 


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which there is $8358 to pay taxes to educate each child; and the 
lowest is Wilkes, in which $1198 has to pay all the taxes for each 
child’s education bills. 

Our property shows a 27 per cent decrease in valuation since 
1920, as against the average decrease in valuation of 14.3 per 
cent for the entire State. Real estate in Warren county is as a 
general rule valued for taxation in Warren county at this time at 
a higher figure than it can be sold for on the open market. 


LENGTH OF TERM NEAR TOP IN STATE 

The county had, in 1924-25, a school term of 146 days for each 
white child, which was en average higher than all of the other 
counties of the State except 19. In 1925-26, the average term 
during which a white child was permitted to attend public school 
was 159 days. We do not know what the average term for the 
entire State was for this session, but we believe Warren county 
is still further toward the top. Only the very small schools of 
Fishing Creek, Johnson and Pope operated for six months, serv- 
ing 110 pupils of average attendance; and these with one other, 
Vicksboro, are the only schools which were open for less than 
full eight months. Vicksboro was open for seven months and 
had an average attendance of 63. Thus it will be seen that out 
of an average attendance of 1849, 1676 were in eight months’ or 
nine months’ schools. Of these 317 were in the Warrenton 
school, whose term was nine months. Our truck also carries 20 
children from Roanoke Township to a nine months’ school at 
Ebony, Va. 


The enrollment is divided as follows: 


Attending 9 months’ school, 406, or 15 per cent. 
Attending 8 months’ school, 1931 or 75 per cent. 
Attending 7 months’ school, 113, or 4 per cent. 
Attending 6 months’ school, 156 or 6 per cent. 


AVERAGE TERM RUNS 121 DAYS IN NEGRO SCHOOLS 
The average term in the colored schools is approximately 121 
days. The county training school at Wise and the schools at War- 
renton and Littleton were operated eight months, and all of the 


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High Schools for the colored race are located at Wise and Warrenton, 
the former being an accredited school. There are six schools of three 
teachers, twenty of two teachers, and fourteen of one teacher. All buildings 
except three are in good physical condition. Twenty-four are “Rosenwald” 
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remainder for the constitutional period. Eighteen per cent of 


the negroes were in schools with eight months’ term, and 82 per 
cent in the six months’ school. 


One may ask whether this is not discrimination against the 
Negro. In reply we point out the fact that each race has as long 
a term as the children of the race can use. Indeed, the colored 
children cannot use a six months’ term. Our reports show that 
during the firs: mon‘h of the six months’ term, only 38.6 per cent 
of the Negro children enrolled are in attendance, and in the second 
month, only 44.2 of them are in attendance. In January, Febru- 
ary, March and the first half of April, the attendance is fair. 
The colored race has a longer school term than it can use, while 
the white children from the county attend the schools of nine 
months at Warrenton and at Ebony, Va., more regularly than they 
used to attend the old six months’ schools, and several districts 
now desire to lengthen the term in the white schools from eight 
to nine months. There cannot be any discrimination against the 
race which has a longer school term than is used. 


DEFECTS SORELY NEEDING CORRECTION 
The problem of school financing has ever been, and now is, 
beset with serious difficulties whose solution is not yet avail- 
able, though conditions are not perhaps as bad as they have been. 
Foremost of these has been the inadequacy of funds. This of 
itself is much abated. Next in the list of undesirable conditions 
are the following: 


BURDEN OF SCHOOL SUPPORT IS NOT EQUAL 

(1) The burden of taxation is unfairly distributed. One 
county pays three times greater taxes per hundred dollars of 
property than another, to obtain the same or an inferior speci- 
men of exactly six months’ schooling. One township or one dis- 
trict, or one family, pays only two thirds as much taxes as 
another, to get, right here in Warren county, the same eight 
months’ term with high school advantages and a teacher for 
each grade or each two grades. Warren county believes that the 
State ought to be the unit of school taxation; or that the Equaliz- 
ing Fund ought really to equalize taxation. And a county unit 


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instead of the district unit, of local taxation, with district govern- 
ment of schools as at present, would be fair. 
REALTY AND PERSONAL PROPERTY ALONE PAY FOR SCHOOLS 
(2) The sources of school taxation are segregated upon an 
unsound basis. It is a fact worthy of much pondering, that 
whereas the other functions of government in this State are sup- 
ported in their entirety by franchise, licenses, privilege taxes, 
income taxes, and gasoline taxes, the school system must be paid 
for entirely by an ad valorem tax (except the pittance from the 
present equalizing fund which does not equalize), and the dog 
taxes and fines. School support is practically a function of the 
counties. County government is supported by an ad valorem tax. 
This ad valorem tax is subject to many and flagrant abuses. It 
affords to many well-to-do people vast opportunities for evasion 
and concealment, and tends to make real property, and the people 
who own real property, whether productive or not, contribute 
more than their just portion of the funds for the support of the 
public schools, the public roads other than the highway system 
of the State Highway Commission (which is one-eighth in War- 
ren county, leaving some 300 miles of road to be supported by 
local money), and the other local functions of government. The 
constant tendency therefore is to cause the public to resent 
school progress, feeling that it is conceived in iniquity of taxa- 
tion and born in oppression of the “unfortunate” man who can- 
not hide what he has. 


THE WILL O’ THE WISP OF CHANGING VALUE 

(3) While the funds for the six months’ school budget re- 
main constant, yet there is a dangerous uncertainty about special 
tax revenues, which are half as much as the other. A district 
spends about what the tax books call for the year, only to find 
that during the year two thousand dollars of its revenue has 
been wiped out by reduction, allowances and disappearances. 
Result: the district is to be crippled by a two thousand dollar 
debt which it did not make and which it could neither foresee nor 
prevent. This has happened in Warren County many times; the 
past year furnishes instance of it. Norlina, Warrenton, Littleton 


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Last year there were 872 children who went to school by truck. The 
trucks traveled 606 miles per day. The largest number carried was 76; the 
smallest was 17. The longest daily trip was 40 miles; the shortest was 
twelve miles. Not counting the Summer overhauling, expenditures included 
$4024.55 for drivers’ salaries, $3097.44 for gas and oil, $3546.65 for repair 
parts, and $1643.88 for labor. 

The total cost including transportation was less than the cost of con- 
ducting school would have been on the old basis without the use of any 
trucks at all. 


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and other districts are suffering from it now. Tabulations of dis- 
trict taxes which accompany this, will afford ample proof. 


SCHOOLS OPERATED BY BORROWED MONEY 

(4) The schools lose thousands of dollars every biennium by 
tardy payment of taxes. The school year begins on July 1. Great 
sums have to be spent in July, August and September for repairs, 
alterations, furniture, fuel and a hundred other things that must 
be ready when school starts. All of our eight months’ schools, 
employing a hundred teachers, begin on or near the first Mon- 
day in September, and salaries are due a month later at the rate 
of ten or fifteen thousand dollars per month. No taxes worth 
speaking about are paid until the latter part of December. The 
bulk of the collections are in February, or later. In a few words, 
two-thirds of the year’s school fund are spent before practically 
any of them are received. 

The county schools, as a result, pay great sums to meet inter- 
est charges for money borrowed in anticipation of taxes that 
could be collected raonths earlier than they are now received. In 
many counties, a discount is allowed for early payment of taxes 
and a penalty is added for late payment, which renders this neces- 
sity for interest charges inoperative in its entirety. Our tax rate 
could be reduced ten cents ver thousand if this were done. 


TRANSPORTATION AND CONSOLIDATION ARE PAYING 

Transportation and consolidation have not only built up in 
Warren county a system of high schools ranking among the Six 
highest in the whole State in efficiency, but the trucks have 
actually saved to the county more than five hundred dollars over 
what would have been paid for schools if we had not had a single 
school truck. A comparison of 1920, the last year in which we 
used no school trucks, with the past school year, 1925-26, will 
prove this. 

In 1920, there were enrolled in the county 1650 white neers 
in 39 schools with 81 teachers; in 1925-26 there were 2506 white 
pupils in only 20 schools with 89 teachers. Fifty-five per cent of 
the school census was enrolled in 1920, while 86 per cent of it is 


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enrolled now. There were 210 pupils in high schools six years 
ago in Warren county; last year there were 554. | 

There were 20 pupils per teacher in 1920, while last year there 
were 281-6 pupils per teacher. Therefore, on the basis of the 
same number of teachers as in 1920, we should have required last 
year 125 teachers, which number was 36 more than we actually 
had last year; and the added cost would have been $28,800.00. 

The gain in enrollment in seven years is 856 pupils. Allow- 
ing our 28 pupils per teacher we should have required 30 more 
teachers than were actually in service six years ago. We really 
have only eight more, because it requires by the use of trans- 
portation and consolidation, 22 fewer teachers to teach the 1650 
pupils who were enrolled six years ago. The difference of 22 
teachers would have cost $17,600 for salaries alone. We actually 
spent for transportation last year $17,666.24, and had on hand 
at the end of the year an inventory of $600 of new equipment 
carried over; wherefore it will be proven that instead of paying 
out the $17,600 for salaries, it cost us $17,066.24 to care for the 
same number of children that the teachers would have taught. 
We have, therefore, saved by transportation $534.76 in one year, 
in teachers’ salaries alone, and have better schooling by far in 
addition. | 


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WARREN'S EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 


By HOWARD F. JONES, Former Superintendent of Education 


The citizens of Warren county have just pride in the character 
and achievements of our ancestors who came to this county when 
it was a wilderness inhabited by Indians and covered by a mag- 
nificent forest of oak, pine, hickory, walnut, interspersed with 
dogwood and the fragrant honeysuckle. It was a fit setting for 
a great civilization. History says: “The county is delightfully 
undulating, and its habitants elegant and refined.” 

The humorous and sarcastic Colonel William Byrd, of “Divid- 
ing Line” fame, could not have had this section in mind when he 
ridiculed the inhabitants along the border on the North Carolina 
side, describing them as “mere Adamites, innocence only ex- 
cepted,” for he returned home and advised his kinsman and 
friend, William Raleigh Duke, to “go to that section, for it is the 
finest I have seen anywhere.” William Duke came, settled at 
what is now known as Ridgeway, named his home ‘Purchase 
Patent,” placed glass windows in his dwelling (the first in all this 
section), persuaded Miss Mary, daughter of Edward Green, to 
marry him and raised a large and interesting family. The Dukes, 
the Alstons, the Twittys, the Palmers, the Milams, the Fittses, 
the Greens, the Davises, the Wards, the Boyds, the Burwells, the 
Williamses, the Worthams, the Christmases, the Howes, the 
Joneses and the Ransoms claim descent from this couple. 

As early as 1735, the Kearneys, Eatons and Joneses came to 
this county, for the Colonial Records contain entries of Crown 
lands by these gentlemen—they having families and slaves suf- 
ficent to meet the requirements of the King’s representatives. 

The early settlers of Warren were from Virginia, coming to 
North Carolina in the determination to escape the pomp and cere- 
mony of Church and State of that Colony, with its incident high 


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taxes, unjustly laid. They were “Round Heads.” Many of their 
ancestors were followers of Cromwell, and doubtless came to 
America to escape the wrath of CHARLES II. Some of them 
claimed descent from ‘The Commission of Forty’? who ordered 
the head of CHARLES I laid on the block. Colonel Wharton J. 
Green in his book, “Recollections and Reflections,’ speaking of 
this matter in connection with his “wilful ways” as a boy, says: 
“Being a Tyrant hater by nature as well as by inheritance, one 
of my grandfathers having been of that honorable ‘Commission 
of Forty’ (afterwards known as Regicides) that cut off the head 
of one CHARLES STEWART, about the last of that Crown- 
wearing tribe in England.” 


EARLY SETTLERS WERE MEN OF BOOKS AND PROPERTY 

These early settlers were not ordinary men in any sense. They 
were well informed, owned books and slaves, were men of religious 
zeal, with the Book of Books upon the Family Altar. They were 
imbued with the spirit of independence. Each was sufficient unto 
himself in personal matters, but Empire builders in the sense 
that they worked together for the public good. Hence churches, 
roads and grist mills soon appeared, and representatives were 
selected to attend the Colonial Assemblies. They took first rank 
there and were alert for the preservation of their rights as 
Englishmen. Their estates grew with the growth of the county 
and though they had large families, yet each member was well- 
provided for in the distribution of their respective parents’ estate. 

At this early date this section was known as “Edgecombe 
Precinct,” and the old land grants,record that fact. It was not 
long, however, before the population and business so increased 
that a demand was made for a new county to be formed from 
the northern end of Edgecombe, and thus Granville was formed, 
and again prosperity so abounded that the southern end of Gran- 
ville was cut off and Bute County was formed, and during the 
Revolutionary War (1779) Warren and Franklin were formed 
from Bute—neither county being willing to retain the obnoxious 
name of (Earl) Bute. You can readily see the reason when you 
consult history. “There were no Tories in Bute’—‘“the inhabi- 
tants rose as one man in the Cause of Liberty.” 


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CITIZENS DEMANDED FREEDOM FROM CROWN IN 1774 

Even as early as 1774 the men of Bute met and passed certain 
resolutions in which they demanded freedom, pledged themselves 
to care for the families of their brother soldiers who fell in battle, 
gave notice of a willingness to “march as far as the ‘Potomack,’ ” 
and beyond if they could get guns and ammunition, elected their 
officers, and thought they had done nothing but a patriotic duty. 
This was two years before the Williamsburg (Va.) Resolutions; 
a year or more before the patriots of Mecklenburg resolved for 
Independence, and about two years before the remainder of the 
Colony was ready to declare for Independence at Halifax, 
Apriel2 1776. 


It is not surprising, therefore, that when the ‘Embattled 
Farmers of Lexington fired the shot which was heard around the 
World” that Bute county had no duty of crushing the Tories in 
her midst; that had been done when they organized to fight in 
1774. Philemon Hawkins, Senior, a wealthy gentleman, was 
Governor Tryon’s right hand man here, and Governor Tyron, 
representing the King, was most obnoxious and cruel to the early 
patriots. General Hawkins had nothing to say after “Bute rose 
as one man” and formed its military company. He, too, must 
have joined hands with his neighbors, for his sons were ardent 
and influential patriots—Benjamin Hawkins being on General 
Washington’s staff, and afterwards our representative in the U. 8. 
Senate, and Indian Agent by appointment of Congress. He serv- 
ed long and honorably in this position. It is quite a coincidence 
that the Legislature of the State should have called Colonel Haw- 
kins to act as commercial agent in making purchases of all things 
needful at home and abroad for the defense of the State in the 
War (1780), and that North Carolina should again turn to War- 
ren County in the War Between the States to select Mr. John 
White to purchase all supplies needed abroad for the defense of 
the State. Both appointees were worthy and well qualified. 

And again it may be interesting to note that North Carolina 
turned to Warren Coanty to find its United States Senators—the 
county having both senators and for a short period (Macon and 
Hawkins served 47 years), and at the same period Warren County 


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furnished William Miller, as Governor; Nathaniel Macon and 
James Turner, as United States Senators; Weldon N. Edwards, 
as Congressman; John Hall, Judge of the Superior Court, and 
Oliver Fitts as Attorney-General. Lack of space prevents me 
following this very interesting matter further. We have every 
reason to take pride in the achievements of our ancestors; but it 
should be such pride as will make us “‘worthy sons of noble sires.” 
Unless it does this, then “our preaching is in vain.” 


THE MAN FOR WHOM THE COUNTY WAS NAMED 

I cannot close without some notice of that great patriot, Dr. 
Joseph Warren, a Major General in the Provincial forces, who fell 
in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Her personal appear- 
ance, his kind address and humanity won its way to all hearts. 
Dr. Warren was so incensed at the massacre of the colonists in 
Boston that he was outspoken in his condemnation. His oratory 
and the truth of his remarks cut the British to the quick. General 
Gage in command of the British troops gave orders that he should 
not again speak in the town, at his peril. Dr. Warren took fire at 
the tyrannical threat, and requested permission to deliver the 
oration at the anniversary of the massacre, the place being Old 
South church. General Gage heard of it and filled the doors and 
entrances with soldiers with bayonets, to prevent Warren’s en- 
trance and speech. Warren procured a ladder, climbed through 
a high back window, and pressed forward to his post. “In the 
bloom of manhood, flushed with the spirit of Liberty, the youth- 
ful orator advanced.” The British officers, seeing his coolness and 
bravery, made way for him. In words that breathed and burned 
he “spoke of the early history of the Colonists and of their rights 
and the claims of justice, and how these rights had been trampled 
down, how violated by the tyranical power of England. His de- 
scription of suffering, agony and blood of the colonists chilled 
even the spirit of the British. The scene was sublime—the cause 
of Truth prevailed. The day passed without any violence.” Such 
a man and such a patriot did our patriots select to honor in the 
name of our county—our sister county choosing the patriotic 
name of Franklin. 


“Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time.” 


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WARRENTON GRADED AND HIGH SCHOOL 
Member of Southern Association of High Schools and Colleges 


HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS—4J. Y. Kerr, Principal, A. B., University 
N. C.; Mariam Boyd, A. B., N. C. C. W., Greensboro; Helen Thompson, A. B., 
Duke University; Tempe Boyd, A. B., Randolph-Macon, Lynchburg; Emma 
Bryant, A. B., Winthrop College; Elizabeth Peay (Voc., H. E.), Lander, A. B.; 
Lilly Belle Dameron (Music); Mrs. R. R. Rodwell (Music). 

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Mrs. H. V. Scarborough, Mrs. T. R. 
Tunstall, Mrs. Virginia Gibbs Pearsall, Frances Robertson, A. B., Salem; 
Dorothy Schaefer, Mrs. J. C. Gardner, Rosa V. Hamilton. 





LITTLETON HIGH AND GRADED SCHOOL 


HIGH SCHOOL -TEACHERS—C. U. Williams,, A. B37 U. N.C; Jessie 
Sutton, Cliffie Williams, A. B., N. C. W., Greensboro; Elizabeth Morton, 


Henrietta Alsticn (Music). 
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Lorena Miller, A. B., Coker College; 


Helen Dickson, Agnes Edwards, Florence Dean, Pattie Thorne, Mrs. Ae Tie 
Ivey. 





WISE HIGH AND GRADED SCHOOL 
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS—W. -J. Early, Principal, B: S., Wake 
Forest College; Blanche Banks, A. B., Meredith College; Emily Milam, Lucile 


Ransom (Music). 
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—<Annie May Koon, Esther Umberger, 
Crystal Bobbitt, Carrie Dunn, Evelyn Byrd Harrison. 





VAUGHAN HIGH AND GRADED SCHOOL 
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS—C. L. Peares, Principal, A. B., Wake 
Forest ’*Colleve:sMrst JT, Bells 
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Mrs. C. L. Pearce, Bernice Hitchens, 
Mrs heeubell: 


CO) 


Percentage of Children In Each Grade, 1925-26 


WHITE | 
Grade Percent 

Ist 16.9 

2nd ee 

3rd 11.8 

4th 10.5 

5th 10.6 

6th 9.3 

7th 7.6 

8th 7.6 

9th 5.8 

10th 4.6 

11th 4, 
Total percentage in First Four Grades 50.4 
Total percentage in Grades 5, 6, 7 PAS 


Tictal percentage in High School Grades 22.1 


To have 22 per cent of the total enrollment in the high school is a record 
that only five other counties in North Carolina can equal or excell. 


COLORED 
Grade Percent ; 
Ist 34.2 
2nd 14.9 
3rd 13.9 
4th 126 
5th LOU 
6th ee 
7th 4.8 
8,9,10,11 1.8 
Total percentage in First Four Grades 65.6 
Total percentage in Grades 5, 6, 7 22.6 
Total percentage in High School 1.8 
Total in High School, entire State .98 


In the State as a whole, less than one per cent of the colored enroll- 
ment is in the high school grades, or half of the showing of Warren County. 
Warren has always given its colored people a fair opportunity, and the 
colored people have sincerely appreciated it. 


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Regularity of Attendance 


Percentage of Enrollment in Average Daily Attendance, 1925-1926 


WHITE 
District or Township ae reenter Total 
Warren Plains .80 .80 
Pope 70 .70 
Wise .84 STi Ass 
Vaughan .64 afi .70 
Macon © wie .66 70 
Norlina .86 OL 83 
Afton-Elberon cvpl .70 .70 
Drewry .88 75 .80 
Littleton 82 fa) 74 
Warrenton 88 74 SS 
Churchill and Metalia .66 .66 
Oakville ate as 
Embro 57 sie 
Epworth itt otk 
Inez 62 .62 
Arcola hs 19 
Vicksboro .56 56 
Johnson .62 .62 
TOTAL FOR COUNTY 82 71 74 
Total for State, all grades combined, all schools .76.4 
Total for State, outside of city school systems 74.5 


This shows that too many pupils are irregular in attendance. Macon, 
Afton-Elberon, Vicksboro, Inez, Johnson, be:ng notable examples cf need 
of improvement as compared with the county average. Warren county is 
one half of one per cent below the State rural average. Rank of Warren 
county 66th from top in all county systems. This is too low and needs im- 
provement. 


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Regularity of Attendance 


Percentage of Enrollment in Average Daily Attendance, 1925-1926 
COLORED 


Percentage of Enrollment 


District or Township in Average Attendance 





Wise .70 
Churchill (2 schools) 55 
Oakville (2 schools) 54 
Vaughan 65 
Macon 61 
Norlina (3 schools) 57 
Embro 58 
Oine Al 
Epworth .36 
Afton-Elberon-Axtell 48 
Warren Plains 50 
Vicksboro 63 | 
Drewry (4 schools) 60 
Inez (4 schools) .60 
Fishing Créek (5 schools) 63 } 
Shocceo (2 schools) BD2 
Roanoke 08 
River Keys 
Baltimore and Liberia 59 
Judkins (2 schools) AB 
Warrenton .00 
Littleton 43 
WARREN COUNTY 56 
NORTH CAROLINA, RURAL .65.6 


This is the point where Warren county falls lower in its State rating 
than in any other particular; the fact that we are ten per cent below average 
in the average attendance of the colored pupils, who are 70 per cent of our 
total enrollment, reduces the county general average much below 
the average. Our Negro population seems not to be able to use to advantage 
a school term longer than five months. 


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ATTENDANCE AND PROMOTIONS 


Comparative Report: 


Showing a Comparison of Average Attendance and Promotions In All 


SCHOOL 


White Schools, 1925-26 


Promotions 


Average Attendance 


Wise High 

Churchill and Metalia 
Oakville 

Vaughan High 
Macon High 

Norlina High 

i~mbro 

Epworth 


Afton-Elberon Consol. 


Warren Plains 
Vicksboro 
Drewry High 
Inez 

Arcola 

Johnson 

Pope 

Warrenton High 
Littleton High 


ENTIRE COUNTY 


169 
27 
15 

102 

137 

314 


16 
317 
253 


———————# 


1849 


153 
29 
16 
69 
93 

276 
19 
35 
88 
41 
52 

123 
24 
46 
20 
18 

277 

201 


—— ———_~ 


1611 


This table indicates that in the entire county, 87 per cent of all white 


children of the average attendance are promoted. 


It suggests that certain 


schools probably promote too readily, while other schools receive from the 
smaller schosls teaching the lower grades, too many pupils not adequately 


prepared, and find it necessary to retard them. 


great number of promotions indicates effective work. 


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But in some cases the 


Rating According To Age 


Percentage of Children Enrolled That Are Above Normal Age 
For Their Grades, 1925-26 





SCHOOL Enrollment Percentage Over Age 
Churchill and 41 hal} 

Metalia 
Inez 31 1K) 
Pope 23 22 
Oakville 20 PAS 
Norlina High 380 34 
Drewry High aol 35 
Epworth 48 35 
Warrenton High 406 38 
Wise High 236 38 
Littleton High 343 40 
Arcola 91 45 
Johnson 42 45 
Macon High 198 46 
Vaughan High 146 AT 
Warren Plains 49 AT 
Embro 37 48 , 
Afton-Elberon 158 5D 
Vicksboro 113 74 
WARREN COUNTY 2503 41.6 
NORTH CAROLINA, 1924-25 46.85 
North Carolina, 

Outside of Cities, 1924-25 50.90 


Only twelve ccunties have a better record than Warren in this particular. 

The table above tells a plain story of irregularity in attendance. Chil- 
dren irregular in attendance are not able to deserve promotion. As many 
schools cf short term have few retarded pupils, as of those of long term; 
the difference is often due to carelessness, or to failure of parents to realize 
the importance of regular attendance. 


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Details of Truck Operation, 1925-26 


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John Williams Wise 30 53 160 $ .50 
Charlie Ball Wise 25 56 160 52 
Henry Bell Churchill _ . 12 30 160 ue) 
Cree Haithcock Churchill 25 19 160 4 
Gid King Oakville 14 24 160 1.71 
Horace Ellis Oakville 20 van 160 1.16 
John Dowling Norlina 30 60 160 44 
Henry Seaman Norlina 20 26 160 1.07 
Weymouth Hayes Oine 24 22 160 1.89 
Frank Stegall Oine 28 30 160 92 
Cleveland Neal Embro eos 48 160 51 
Jesse Salmon Epworth — . 14 17 160 2.03 
J. L. Pinnell Afton 20 28 180 wi2 
Ira Weaver Afton 20 31 160 61 
Lewis Fuller Afton 30 76 160 20 
J. B. Pritchard Vicksboro 14 39 140 1.46 
Thos. Paschall : Drewry 26 46 160 .D0 
Ryron Brewer ; Drewry 22 38 160 1.04 
H. P. Wilson Drewry Pag h 30 160 62 
James Harris Inez ) 35 a0 120 sts) 
Jack King Fishing Creek 35 24 120 My? 
Richard Davis Fishing Creek 28 22 120 ye 
Norman Tucker Fishing Creek 40 are 120 1.45 
Jack Shearin Fishing Creek 26 23 120 45 
R. D. Fleming River 12 23 120 1.76 
Roy Grey River 14 18 120 1.94 
Albert Moseley Roanoke 15 27 120 1.41 





Total for county: 28 trucks; miles traveled, 634; children carried, 879; 
per pupil mile, $.98. Where trucks are operated only 120 days at public 


expense, the two additional months’ operation is cared for by subscription 
of patrons. 


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MACON HIGH AND GRADED SCHOOL 
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS—Martin J. Davis, Principal, M. A., Uni- 
versity North Carolina; Sallie Allen, A. B., University INE? @e*> Mirson lee les 
Harris, A. B.; A. A. Cone, B. S., Alabama Tech., Auburn, Ala. (Agri.); Josie 
Rodwell (Music). 
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Dora Tyler, Mrs. V. G. Shearin, Mrs. 
A. A. Cone, Mrs. S. S. Reeks. 





NORLINA HIGH AND GRADED SCHOOL 

HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS—Dwight M. Castelloe, Principal, A. M., 
University N. C.; Frances Smith, A. B., E. C. T. C., Greenville; Louise Hay- 
WardmeAcs 5. WN; C. Caw: Greensboro; Mrs. Q. M. Wiggins, Victoria Adcock, 
Mrs. ‘N. ee ’Gholson, B. M. Durham Conversateo ry (Music). 

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Frances Robinson, Sara Towe, Minnie 
Cawthorne, Mrs. J. B. Haymore, Mrs. Nellie Register, Emma Dunn, Susi¢ 
Rooker. 


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AFTON HIGH AND GRADED SCHOOL 


HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER—Leslie D. Bell, A. B., Lynchburg College. 
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Florznce Mustian, Willa Matheson, Mrs. 
L. M. Moretz, Mary Belle Sullivan, 





DREWRY HIGH AND GRADED SCHOOL 


HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS—Herbert Scholz, A. B., Elon College; 
Judith Boyd. 

ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Etta Fleming, Mrs. L. O. Reavis, Helen 
Read, Mary B. Kimball, A . B., G. C. W., Greensboro. 


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COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL, WISE 
FOR COLORED CHILDREN 
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS—G. E. Cheek, Principal, M. A., Knoxville 
College, B. A., Shaw University; James A. Dillard, Annie B. Eley, B. S., 
Shaw University. 
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Mrs. E. B. Cheek, B. A., Knoxville Col- 
lege; Mrs. Edna W. Dancy, Helen Bradshaw, Effie Alston, Maria Poston, 


Mabel Hannah. 
VOCATIONAL TEACHERS—J. L. Bolden, Vocational Agriculture; 


Vivian Clark, Vocatisnal Home Economics. , 





WARRENTON COLORED SCHOOL 


HICH SCHOOLS aL EACHERS—J- JAc. ‘Lester,’ Principal; 7 B-1 8... shaw 
University; Lucile Lemon, A. B., Clark University, Atlanta, Ga. 
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS—Burwell Thornton, Cora Harris, Aurelia 


Green, Mayme Haley. 


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White Teachers With Certificates Held, 1926-27 


High School Principals’ Certificates: 


J. Y. Kerr, .C..:U. Williams; \W. v)-pWarlyio ea Davisne sa lliemAticns 
Mrs. L. R. Harris, D. M. Castelloe, Herbert Scholz. 


Class A Certificate, High School, Grammar Grade and Primary: 


Mariam Boyd, Helen Thompson, Tempe Boyd, Emma Bryant, Frances 
Robertson, Jessie Sutton, Cliffie Williams, Blanche Banks, C. L. Pearce, 
Frances Smith, Louise Hayward, Leshe D. Bell, Aaron A. Cone, Agnes 
Edwards, Rosa V. Hamilton. 


Class B Certificates, High School, Grammar Grade or Primary: 


Elizabeth Morton, Lorena Miller, Helen Dickson, Emily Milam, Dorothy 
Schaefer, Mary B. Kimball, Mrs. V. G. Pearsall, Florence Dean, Esther 
Umberger, Judith Boyd, Mrs. L. O. Reavis, Willa L. Matheson. 


Class C Certificates, High School, Grammar Grade or Primary: 


Mrs. J. T. Bell, Mrs. C. L. Pearce, Josie Rodwell, Mrs. Q. M. Wiggins, 
Victoria Adcock, Frances Robinson, Sara Towe, Florence Mustian, Elizabeth 
Peay, Mrs. T. R. Tunstall, Mrs. R. L. Bell, Lucy Reeks, Mrs. V. iG. Shearin, 
Etta Fleming, Mrs. E. D. Chewing, Mrs. B. D. Scull, Willie Robinson, 
Mrs. H. V. Scarborough, Mrs. Eva T. Gardner, Crystal Bobbitt, Carrie B. 
Dunn, Mrs. S. S. Reeks, Emma Dunn, Maz Perry, Clara Thompson, Mrs. 
C. J. Weaver, Helen Read, Jimmie Clark. 


Elementary Certificates, Class A: 


Mrs. J. R. Ivey, Annie May Koon, Evelyn Harrison, Bernice Hitchens, 
Dora Tyler, Mrs. A. A. Cone, Minnia Cawthorne, Mrs. J. B. Haymore, Mrs. 
Nellie Register, Susie Rooker, Mary Belle Sullivan. 


Elementary B Certificates: 


Mrs. John Rodgers, Pattie Thorne, Ellen Perkinson, Tullia B. Rezks, 
Kate Mayfield, Mrs. J. M. Moretz, Elizabeth Thompson, Bzaufort Hunter, 
Gertrude Harris, Belle Wood, Clara F. Pove. 


The Total Teaching Experience of these teachers is 650 years, and the 
average for all teachers in this county is seven years six months. 

The average teacher in the above list has approximately three years 
of college training or its equivalent, as shown by certificates. 


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State Salary Schedule For White Teachers 


High School Teachers’ Certificates, 
Grammar Grade Certificates, 
Primary Certificates: 


MONTHLY SALARY BASED ON LENGTH OF SERVICE 


4 Yrs. 3 Yrs. 2 Yrs. iG, powve IN 
SLOSS) 1 a $133.33 $120.00 $110.00 $105.00 $100.00 
Ciacci eee <4 110.00 105.00 100.00 95.00 90.00 
ODES (2 105.00 100.00 95.00 90.00 85.00 
Provisional Class C.._. 95.00 90.00 85.00 80.00 75.00 
Elementary Teachers’ 
Certificates: 
Chece -/.\. $ 95.00 $ 90.00 $ 85.00 $ 80.00 $ 75.00 
(CHES 1 Se 85.00 80.00 75.00 70.00 65.00 
Provisional Elementary 75.00 70.00 65.00 60.00 55.60 
Certificates Below Standard: 
eee en eee A ee ee ee ee ee Pee 28 2 $760.00 
Rae ee eee oe) 88s ee eS TT ee ete ae 5500 
eee ae en Se ee ON ote ee I ap Pe ne ne eh hbo. SO 50.00 
WartieveeoccOln Se Grades 22.0 ae tee a eee ee oe 45.00 


State Salary Schedule For Colored Teachers 


High School Teachers’ Certificates, 
Grammar Grade Certificates, 
Primary Certificates: 


MONTHLY SALARY BASED ON LENGTH OF SERVICE 


4 yrs. SYCS: 2 VOTES, RYT: 0 

Chocks ile Ss ee ae $100.00 $ 95.00 $ 90.00 -$ 85.00 $ 80.00 
(igvemer ete; -90.00 85.00 80.00 75.00 70.00 
Geicke (Cae a 80.00 77.50 75.00 72.50 70.00 
Provisional Class C-- 75.00 70.00 65.00 60.00 57.50 
Elementary Teachers’ 

oe $ 75.00 $70.00 $65.00 $60.00 $ 57.50 
iassu bss. je 70.00 65.00 60.00 57.50 55.00 
Provisional Elementary 65.00 60.00 55.00 | ‘ 52.50 50.00 
Certificates Below Standard: a east 
Tle RNS Ae ore i Ae teeta eee gL mh aoe 
SIONAL Ate 2 ane ee ee a eS aS retens caret aay hee 


MROVIsIiONAl Bo 22s se ne re nm ee 
County Second Grade... -....-:...)---.---------- scan n nnn - $35.0 00 to pets 


County Third Gen me ge ae nel, get ee ee ee be 





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School Committeemen As of November |, 1926 





DISTRICT 
Wise 
Churchill 
Oakville 
Vaughan 
Macon 
Norlina 


Embro 

Oine 

Epworth 
Afton-Elberon-Axtell 


Warren Plains 
Drewry 


Inez 
Warrenton Special Charter* 
Littleton 


TOWNSHIP 


Sandy Creek 
Fishing Creek 
Judkins 

Fork (Creek) 
Shocco 
Roanoke 
River 


Warrenton (Liberia, Baltimore) 


en ———————————————————————L—K$K$6§ 


appointed by the Board of Education, and the fi 
Kate P. Arrington, W. G. Rogers, R. B. Boyd, H. A. Mo seley, 
Boyd. Of these, V. F. Ward, Miss Julia Dameron, T. V. Allen, 


1929 


C. C. Perkinson 
Jasper Shearin 


Miss Irene Rodwell 


L. O. Haskins 
F. M. Drake 
M. C. Johnson 


Mrs. G. K. Marshall 


Abner Shearin 
R. S. Williams 
Hal D. Bobbitt 
R. G. Daniel 
Fate Weaver 
A. P. Rodwell 
W. W. Kimball 
N. H. Paschall 
Harry Williams 


J. A. Hudgins 
M. L. Cole 
W. E. Turner 
A. 8S. Bugg 
F. F. Ryder 
O. F. Clark 
J. B. Davis 
Haslet 
H. E. Sadler 
W. T. Powell 


details as required by law of School Committees. 





1928 


H. Evans Coleman 
H. E. Rodwell 
Jchn W. King 
W. T. Carter 
Fletcher Bobbitt 
J. T. White 

T. Alex Baxter 
JH ent 
Will Martin 

S. D. King 

M. S. Dryden 


G. W. Hester 
Philip Holtzman 


S. W. Powell 
Tavera ler 
W. R. Wiggins 


Robert P. Fleming 
W. T, Davis 
Frank Neal 

M. T. Pridgen 

W. C. Burroughs 
J. W. Reid 

W. H. Walker 

L. W. Haithcock 


1927 


Arthur Perkinson 
J. J. Nicholson 

C. W. Floyd 

W. W. Pegram 
W. Pryor Rodwell 
H. H. Hawks 


Joe Stallings 


H. L. Salmon 
J. L. Aycock 
Herbert Edmonds 
E. G. Overby 
J. E. Paschall 


B. G. Tharrington 
G. R. Scoggin 
N. W. Warren 


J. B. Pritchard 
Charles Haithcock 
ee Vee onearin 

W. E. Davis 

F. F. Limer 

M. G. King 

T. B. Fleming 
Ricks Mustian 


EY 


*The Board of Trustees of the Warrenton Graded and High School district is composed 

cllowing: Hon. J. H. Kerr, V. F. Ward, Miss Julia Dameron, Mrs. 
E. S. Allen, Tasker Polk, Thomas D. Peck, H. A. 
E. S. Allen, as Executive Committee, administer 


of the three named, 


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Colored Teachers and Certificates Held By Each 


High School Principal’s Certificates: 
G, E. Cheek, Mrs. E. B. Cheek. 


Class A Certificates, High School, Grammar Grade and Primary: 
J. A. Dillard, Mrs. Edna W. Dancey, Annie B. Eley, J. A. Lester. 


Class B Certificates, High School, Grammar Grade and Primary: 


Helen M. Bradshaw, Effie Alston, Geneva Poston, Mabel Hannah, Mrs. 
L. M. Williamson, Mary L. ‘Goode, Anna R. Goings, J. L. Bolden. 


Class C Certificates, High School, Grammar Grade and Primary: 


Emma B. Lewis, Helen Cross, Winnie B. Williams, Lucile Lemon, Mrs. 
V. H: Clark. 


Elementary A Certificates: 


‘Minerva Hawkins, Geneva Madison, Mrs. D. A. W. Pugh, Mrs. Mamie 
O. Alston, Mary L. Arrington, Rosa E. Alston, Mrs. Cora T. Harris, Mayme 
Hayley. 


-, 


Elementary B Certificates: 


Rev. J. G. Lewis, Mrs. J. G. Lewis, Louise Howell, Bessie Copeland, 
Mrs. M. E. Strowd, J. L. Watson, Mattie Alexander, Mrs. Enolia Streeter, 
Mattie B. Alston, Sallie Mae Williams, Mrs. Lucy Watson, Willie G. Watson, 
Mrs. Lula R. Davis, Mary L. Merritt, Maude Philpott, C. C. Fitts, Mrs. A. B. 
Northington, Elnora Wright, Pollie Levister, Mrs. Nevie J. Powell, Mrs. 
Emma B. Williams, B. Thornton, Mrs. Arelia C. Green, Robert Ransom, 
Freddie Warwick, Lucy Wortham, L. C. Watkins, Mrs. L. C. Watkins, Viola 
King, Julia Ricks, Hattie N. Harrison, Mrs. Lula J. Sailman, Daisy B. 
Hawkins, W. J. West, Mrs. Nannie C. West, Mrs. Annette R. Green, Pattie 
Gatling, Mrs. Gertrude Banks, Clementine Harris, Bertha Ransom, Susie 
J. Franklin, Lizzie Sledge, Rev. E. L. Allen, Mrs. Lucy M. Boyd, Mrs. Mabel 
Falkener, Lunar P. Davis, Mrs. Birdie L. Plummer, J. H. Foster, Mrs. Mary 
C. Alston, R. L. Feilds, Mrs. Elizabeth Pierce, Josephine Somerville, Dora 


V. Shelton, Mrs. Annie B. Alston. 


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Seniors in the High Schools of Warren County 
1926-1927 * 


Schools are listed in the order of their accrediting. 

MACON—Lucy F. Coleman, Maybelle Fitts, Annie M. Haithcock, Cree 
Haithcock, Lena Rivers Haithcock, Myrtis Harris, Walton Shaw, Willie P. 
Shearin. 


WARRENTON—Frances Benson, Margaret Brown, Mary Capps, Mattie 
Davis, Anna Drake, Rita Friedenberg, Elnora Gupton, Margaret Hunter, 
Bobbie Jones, Ida Mae King, Fannie Martin, Rachel Mullen, Alta Mustian, 
Mary Neal, Olive Limer, Addie Pinnell, Sara Ward, John Conn, Richard 
Davis, Frank Friedenberg, James Harris, Roger Limer, Douglas Mustian, 
Graham Reams. 


NORLINA—Katherine Baxter, Margaret Conwell, Jessie Dixon, Mildred 
Frazier, Helen Hawks, Lorena Hayes, Maud Hicks, Mary Howard, Lucile 
Hundley, Louise Inscoe, Lillian Ranson, Minnie Wilson, Nellie Wilson, 
Stephen Crowder, John Dowling, Carlton Duke, Baxter Haymore, Boyd May- 
field, Bennett Ranson. 


LITTLETON—George W. Alston, Hermon Hunt, Cora Lou Bobbitt, 
Edith May Bobbitt, Elva Lancaster, Elizabeth Miller, Mary Murphy, Gladys 
Myrick, Winifred C. Nicholson, Lucy Perry, Mary Powell Pippin, Belle 
Shearin, Gladys Shearin, Dora Thorne. 


WISE—Gideon W. King, Bradley King, Josie Mulchi, Annie Mary 
Gardner, Ella Mustian, Elizabeth Perkinson, Christine Perkinson, Florrie C. 
Perkinson, Virginia Salmon, Ava Stegall, Ruth Stegall. 


VAUGHAN (Recognized High School)—Joseph Riggan, Dennis Harris, 
Myrtice Harris, Nellie Gray Newsom. 


DREWRY (Recognized High School)—Lizzie Brewer, Lucy Brown 
Buchanan, Anna Seaman, Richard D. Paschall, M. J. Satterwhite. 


COLORED 


WARREN COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL (Accredited High School)— 
Delia Alston, Lovest Alexander, Daniel Cheek, Horace Cheek, Alice Dowtin, 
Samuel Dowtin, Mary E. Green, Stella Green, Lena Hayes, Moses Henderson, 
Millie Long, Sanora Watson. 


* As compiled Dee. 1, 1926. 


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Location of Special Tax Districts 


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Table Showing Changing Values of Real Estate 














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Sheriff’s Sheriff’s Sheriff’s 
Tax Settle- Tax Settle- Tax Settle- 
District Books ment Loss Books ment Loss Books ment Loss 
1923-1924 1923-1924 1923-1924 1924-1925 1924-1925 1924-1925 1925-1926 1925-1926 1925-1926 
Warrenton $12,724.07 $11,534.33 $1,189.74 $12,312.67 $11,198.69 $1,113.98 $13,118.88 $11,970.68 $1,148.20 
Littleton 2,404.29 2,168.49 235.80 4,488.97 4,184.78 304.19 4,620.24 4,262.05 358.19 
Wise Bolas 3,298.83 213.70 SOLOS 3,902.01 162.47 3,388.55 3,200.21 188.34 
Churchill 949.34 904.97 44.37 1,395./9 1aeY Dalry 53.07 1,349.46 1,295.56 53.90 
Oakville 688.56 645.88 42.68 613.31 585.05 28.26 564.33 532.64 31.69 
Vaughan 1,870.60 ial 96.09 2,218.66 22022 93.44 1,879.86 1,811.53 68.33 
Macon 4,190.37 3,986.43 203.94 3,952.19 3,679.29 272.90 3,951.48 3,604.90 346.58 
Norlina 10,572.89 9,431.89 1,141.00 Or fOOeIie 8,852.65 903.47 95296-2050 S407. te 819.13 
Oine 418.44 382.66 35.78 454.32 424.00 30.33 439.12 400.76 38.36 
Embro 422.50 363.72 58.78 466.30 421.64 44.66 437.11 389.67 47.44 
Epworth 773.50 Weyeey 41.08 fake 679.56 34.55 cere 668.70 44.03 
Afton-Elberon | 
Axtell 2,428.47 Pera) 102.68 2,494.48 202042 169.06 2,547.21 2,396.90 150.31 
Warren Plains 1,075.85 1,003.35 72.50 1,127.69 967.14 160.55 994.14 947.50 46.64 
Drewry 2,414.95 2,204.59 210.36 Pipa ieee 2,098.63 280.71 2,274.83 2,140.50 134.33 
Inez 883.05 838.66 44.39 929.09 880.46 48.63 896.04 849.57 46.47 
TOTALS $45,329.41 $41,596.52 $3,732.89 $46,818.33 $43,118.06 $3,700.27 $46,470.23 $42,948.29 $3,521.94 
Sheriff’s Commission 1,323.33 1,342.70 1,319.18 
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Valuation Valuation Valuation Valuation 
ee” 1923-1924 1924-1925 1925-1926 1926-1927 
Warrenton $ 3,138,384 bed fd P2333 DEaehhO. Zoe $ 2,688,729 
Littleton 769,034 852,493 883,251 800,043 
Wise 1,090,149 1,097,062 1,061,415 1,066,641 
Churchill 479,557 516,318 499,587 483,131 
Oakville 254,122 2323 212,536 241,745 
Vaughan 593,835 708,254 595,120 601,388 
Macon 893,077 987,657 876,649 805,322 
Norlina 1,578,084 1,490,467 1,417,196 1,248,210 
Oine 254,971 274,394 197,664 188,299 
Embro 190,548 213,046 261,708 198,687 
Epworth 435,163 331,254 331,766 ga0;00D 
Afton-Elberon 
Axtell 940,694 854,027 871,292 768,558 
Warren Plains 458,131 482,291 419,182 399,902 
Drewry 892,476 872,239 833,138 858,272 
Inez 539,204 568,389 546,365 588,369 
Totals All 
Special Dist. $12,507,429 $12,186,647 $11,783,161 $11,270,801 
Totals Non- 
Special Dist. 2,586,070 2,639,937 2,698,138 2,932,744 
Totals for 
County $15,093,499 $14,826,584 14,481,299 $14,208,545 


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EHSAN Valuation Rate Sources Errors Commissions Settlement Loss 

Warrenton $ 2,776,292 45 $13,118.88 eer tae pe (Oreo $11,970.68 $1,148.20 
Littleton 883,251 50 4,620.24 Zo4e(2 Zo 47 4,262.05 30SeLo 
Wise 1,061,415 30 3,088.55 89.36 98.98 3,200.21 188.34 
Churchill 499,587 25 1,349.46 13-S0 40.07 1,295.56 53.90 
Oakville 212,536 25 564.33 15.24 16.45 532.64 31.69 
Vaughan 595,120 30 1,879.86 eo U 56.03 Siiebs 68.33 
Macon and Bonds 876,649 43 3,951.48 235.06 Pi o2 3,604.90 346.58 
Norlina and Bonds 1,417,196 62 9,296.25 563.14 255.99 SAT pele 819.13 
Embro 197,664 20 439.12 37.40 12.05 389.67 49.45 
Oine 261,708 15 AVAL 23.96 12.39 400.76 36.35 
Epworth 331,766 20 Tawny ZoLBo 20.68 668.70 44.03 
Axtell and 318,955 707.51 PEGS 20.89 

Afton-Elberon BOL 00 T 30 1,839.70 65.05 Howe 2,396.90 150-31 
Warren Plains 419,182 D2, 994.14 17234 29.30 947.50 46.64 
Vicksboro 119,696 25 332.23 9.43 9.68 Sloe be 19.11 
Drewry 833,138 25 2,274.83 72.40 61.93 2,140.50 134.32 
Inez 546,365 15 896.04 20.19 26.28 849.57 46.47 
TOTALS $11,902,857 $46,802.46 $2,221.87 $1,319.18 $43,261.41 $3,541.05 








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District 


Warrenton 

Littleton 

Wise 

Churchill 

Oakville 

Vaughan 

Macon 

Norlina 

Embro 

Oine 

Epworth: 

Afton-Elberon 
Axtell 

Warren Plains 

Vicksboro 

Drewry 

Inez 


TOTALS 


Disbursement of Special Taxes 


Teachers’ Operation and 


Salaries Equipment Loans 
$ 5,096.45 $15,486.02 

2,747.81 1,514.24 

1,094.58 2,105.63 
505.00 $ 132.89 657.67 
420.00 112.64 

e220) 586.28 
B00. tL 3,245.79 

2,505.77 962.70 5,008.65 
389.67 
250.00 150.76 
536.75 131.95 

1,407.13 403.92 585.85 
555.00 284.50 108.00 
313.12 
727.00 933.23 480.27 
549.25 141.92 158.40 


$18,681.89 $3254.51 $29,936.80 


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Totals 


$20,582.47 


4,262.05 
3,200.21 
1,295.56 
532.64 
1,811.53 
3,604.90 
8,477.12 
389.67 
400.76 
668.70 


2,396.90 
947.50 
313.12 

2,140.50 
849.57 


$51,873.20 


Tax Books 


SCHEDULE I. 


RECEIPTS 
Real and Personal Property—$12,525,893 @ 60c__------------ $ 75,152.36 
Railroads, Telegraphs, Telephones—$1,669,794 @ 60c_-_--....---- 10,018.76 
Bank Ee xcess—$38,907.@) G0cl sl) ee See 233.44 
Domestic Corporation Excess—$13,403 @ 60c_-----....----..--.... 80.42 
Polls—3293° @* $1.50 220s ee eee 4,939.50 
Dogs ....200c 5 font Tee aE ey See ee 2,486.10 
Fines, ‘Forfeitures, “Penalties 24_2 2225) eee ee 2,030.12 
DELINQUENTS 
Real &=Personal—-$2383,802) @ }G0Gi2 2 ee 1,402.81 
Polls—80. @/ -$1.50..0 2 Se ee 120.00 
Peter’ Johnson ’ (4 years’ *taxes) \ 555i y 17.29 
17 Special School Districts and 
Two Bond Districts ‘transferred to this Fund____.._____- 43,261.41 
TOTA] RECEIPTS eee eee $139,742.21 
DISBURSEMENTS, Credits Allowed by Commissioners 
Real '& “Personal—-$239,388: @) 60¢2_ 2 ee $ 1,486.30 
Polls—46 (@.°.$1:50-2 22). 2 eee 69.00 
INSOLVENTS 
Real ‘&=Personal—-$25,881 @ 160cl2.3 3 ee 155.29 
Polls—347 .@. $1.5022..20 203i 3 ee ee 520.50 
Land ‘Sales—$244,989°" @: (G0 =...) ee 1,469.93 
Polls—10>@.. $1,502 4. 27 oi ee ee 15.00 
Sheriff's Commission® @ 3) per ‘centiis.0 ae 2,648.96 
Paid: to,.County Treasurer eee 133,427.23 
TOTAL’ DISBURSEME NT Soe ee= $139,742.21 
Number of Schools 


SCHEDULE II. 


Number of Schools in Warren County other than 
City Schools supported in part by Special WHITE COL. TOTAL 
Local “Taxes 222 oe 15 3 18 
Number of Schools supported entirely from funds 
appropriated wholly from State and County 
Six Months’? ‘Schoo|sFund 2-2) )s2 eee 4 38 42 


County Superintendent's Office 
SCHEDULE III. 


Salary of7.County sSuperintendents 22s) 2a $3,600.00 
Traveling Expense County Superintendent=2. ~.)8) =) sae 425.00 
Mileage, Per Diem County Board Education and Miscellaneous___ 714.20 
Other Office’ Expense, Stationery, Hiles,;ete:s. 2) ea eee 328.75 

TOT A Ti oe lh dl os Sy Senet $5,067.95 


Salary Fund Receipts 
SCHEDULE IV. 


FROM: 
Real and Personal, Railroads, Telegraphs, etc.____...........-.. $77,252.11 
Pree alin Cee rund seme! 2 be he oe ee 22,970.93 
Setemebeacher ‘Training tny.. 22... a4... Fabs ao noah Urine See 217.00 
Sramemey OCAtiOnalm LGuCcaAtIONE® ...........22. 02-5 oe eee f.. 3,075.00 
eC IMBIBOCH IME LAXGS 2teg ee (ie Ee eae 27,078.58 
Nirnecm@ouney mtr eVICKSUOLO 62 224 Le ee 1,761.78 
hantaweCounty.,ior Littieton White_—........:.....22-22 22s oe... 4,250.00 
Swe omrim im ocnioolse =) ae bee TAOS EP 1,400.00 
Maco, tuition and Dormitiry Fees_._~=__............-.------- 875.09 
CINE AS Sa 0 = RS a 500.00 


TOTAL SALARY RECEIPIS......--5--.-- 


SALARY FUND DISBURSEMENTS 


Sal eaveotmCounty ouperintendent-. 22........--.-_---2-.2_.- 


Total Salaries paid Teachers, Supervisors, Principals 


AnGmalmotnervemployees e228 522 3. See: 
diranspottauonerixpense. (See Statutes).....-_....----2_..- 


TOTAL SALARY DISBURSEMENTS---- 


ne ian) 


ely Ure 17,686.95 


{eee $139,380.49 


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$ 3,600.00 
118,093.54 


Mak ok $139,380.49 


Operating and Equipment 


RECEIPTS 
Property Tax and Polls) 222222 ee ee $19,376.51 
Dorsee ee Ripe ae ARN By ee El doe lp PARRA MD) 
Fines, Forfeitures, “Penalties... dale ee ee ee ee eee ee ee OO sie 
Private Donations. SE SEN eel a 1,316.84 
Rents =-_ once ee ee eee 205.00 
Refunds:.s. = be ee eee 440.50 
State. for*Special: Building® Fiancee eee 28,040.69 


Borrowed Money, Temporary (Loans 92sec eee OSG aleL 


Special Local Naeremmmrmnine 16,300.72 
Sale -School’ Property 2..3...262=2 2. eee 2,636.00 
TOTAL RECEIPTS OPERATING AND EQUIPMENT_-_________ $90,218.59 
DISBURSEMENTS 
Fuelvand? Janitors2.. 2 0 oe ee 7 
Supplhes-2 8 2... Ate te es Zao leo |i 
Insurance ‘and* Renti.222.. 25.6222 Le ee ee eee LGD 
Transportation, (New) 222 2224523. on CA ety 
New Buildings. and* Sites? 2.2.2 25. So ee 7,542.01 
Repairs s ewe fees : oS ee EE 85) 
Equipment, Blackboard, Desks, "Stoves, ClC. ee eee 3,676.46 
Libraries see San oo ee eee 420.92 
Borrowed Money Repaid and ‘Interest mn a 21,465.01 
Temporary Loans Repaidmand Interests = ses een eee ee 
Refunds, Forfeitures and Taxes___-__-----_- ee eee eae eee 312.16 
Expense Supervisor_____-........ wm Gr coy i ee tee eS 241.60 
Expense Superintendent Public | Welfare aan ane 106.30 
Census. 23x 2e2 228 ee eC 279.02 
Halifax County, Littleton Colored] Schoo) say sae eee 150.00 
County Commencement? 2.2 ere ee 225.00 
Retainer’s Fee, T. Polk, ie (anne ea eee ae 25.00 
Printing << 2203. ene ee ee 11.87 
Phone > Service. see yee ens ee oe ee ee 50.36 
Expense’ Employing. ‘Teachers: 2920 --=e ee e 25.55 
Commencement Expense............ ee ack ES Aes dee ee eo 119.038 
SUMMET EOC 100] ee eee eee pei a ee eee ere 50.00 
Telegrams... Ch iy ool a ee 19.86 
Expense County " Superintendent_ foi OO ee eee ee ee 425.00 
Office Expense. 2232025350. i ee ee 328.75 


Expense, Per Digm County Board Education and Miscellaneous.... 714.20 
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS OPERATING AND EQUIPMENT-_- $80,571.88 


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General Fund Balances 
' SCHEDULE VI 





ASSETS 

Panne eameem une) O00 192G52 20 $10,220.91 
Diewironm Halifax: County for Littleton, White__- ..... LOT ea 
Puemeremm uate. tor. Littleton....0-.0 95. 3,795.85 
Pa@emeromima we DB Harris: 2.20 eee Ley.) ae eae ee 56.59 
Due from Warrenton Graded and High School..__........... 8,611.79 
PUcwerommenccts-shecelvable, Wise Col.-._.-__s_-:_....'..... 600.00 
Due from Accts. Receivable, Warrenton, Col..__________.._...., 1,500.00 
Due from 1926-1927 Coal Bills paid before 6-30-26____....._........... 250.63 
Due from Tires and Supplies on Hand 6-30-26____..........________ 600.00 

TORMMAC COTS Pe ey "$27,548.24 

LIABILITIES 

WWemsite coonmibulldine “Account <..0.....$22.4......0.-22-- Leese _ $22,000.00 
lem te vom Vial cme tere ee ee. 1,404.20 
MUcmetuonmeroreotater loan Unused:...c.-2.-40 ot ec... ° 2,896.87 
Ducmy seeLormotitemtoan WUnused___(—_-=.—__-...2s..--.1_.- a - 1,266.69 
Diem uauenanetormotace, Loan’ Unused: _-_.....-_.2- 2 —---. eee... 261.69 
Meme one orm@olored wschools 3). 2 22 oe... nel 523.48 
omen Co Mm VeLrEancterreds. se. o.oo kein kel eee.) «© 2,147.95 

Gtr wm riskt isa © 8 ee 8 2s. $80,500.88 


SOURCES OF DEFICIT 


" Paid Through Total 
Cos BUNS District Deficit 
Janitor and Fuel © 6,872.92 $ 3,800.00 $85,012.92 
Insurance 2,996.35 1,000.00 100.00 $1,896.35 
Transportation 19,160.68 11,000.00 7,104.34 1,056.29 
TOTALS $29,029.90 $15,800.00 $10,277.26 $2,952.64 


Above deficit of $2952.64 is explained by a net loss of $3,541.05 (See 
page 44, last column) in the amounts of special taxes belonging to the 
several Special Tax Districts when final settlements were made of their 
accounts on the tax books, as compared with summaries of the District Taxes 
which were the guide of the school administration at the beginning of the 


schoolyear. 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS 


Foreword—“T Am Education” 2-222 20 oe eee Page 3 
Outstanding “Works: -of Excellence: =o. 3g ge Page 7 
Low. schools Expenditures 22.2222 ae ee Page 8 
Notable: Achievements ~ 22.2... SU Soa Se ee Page 10 
County Tax. Rateoc == 9225 ee Page 11 
Length: of” Term.....20 22522202 2 eee Page 12 
Improvements:’ Needed: = .0..:is 52222 2 eee eee eee Page 14 
Transportation: ~A- “Means of. Saving] oe Page 17 
Wiarren’s. Educational  Backeround» 2. sos eee BPagenloe 
By Howard F. Jones 
Percentage of: Children In’ Each> Gradese gee este Page 25 
Regularity ~of Attendance! 2222) 222 C2 ee Pages 26-27 
Attendance “and “Promotion. <0 22222 eee Page 28 
Rating ‘According ‘to° Age_2) 3. eee Page 29 
Age Grade Distribution_____ yo he oe ee ee ee Pages 30-31 
Operation (of: ?Trucksi = 22 se ee Page 32 
White: Teachers ‘With Certificates 0 2-0 222 nue eee Page 36 
State- Salary Scaleics.2 22 26h Se eee Page 37 
Names* of Committeemen!202) _- 30 = ee Page 38 
Colored: Teachers! -and>5 Certificates] 2. >a ee ee Page 39 
List-of. Seniors... ee ee eee Page 40 
Changing “Valués“ofReal’ Estate. 2 ees Page 42 
Decrease of Valuation\.In School DistrictSs 2. eee Page 43 
Receipts In Special Tax Districts-__...._- NES NING 24 1 a Ph ee Page 44 - 
Disbursement, of-Special- Taxes_22 22 _-Page 45 
Analysis of Tax Books _-_....__ go yee ee een aa ee ee ee Page 46 
Number:-of “Schoolss2 or 2 Seen ee Page 46 
County “Superintendéent’s* Office: 2 oe 2 ere Page 46 
Salary Fund Receipts....___ TEEN RE ee Pn tS ae Page 47 
Operating ‘and “Equipment } Fund? 222 eee eee Page 48 
General:-Fund. Balancesi2_ 20.0 Page 49 
INDEX OF MAPS 
Location and Size of White Schoolsi._-__________ 2 So ee rae en at ew Page 9 
Distribution ‘of Colored) Schools2s ue 2) eae ee eee Page 13 
Truck:.«Routes-2 320 8 Se ee ee ee Page 16 
Special Tax -Distriets2250) 38 ae ee eee _Page 41 


THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND THEIR FACULTIES 


Warrenton and; Littleton. 2220 2.2. 2 a eee Page 23 

Wise. and> Vaughan. 0252.0 Se ee eee Page 24 

Macon and -Norlina...) 28022. ee Page 33 

Alton wand me rewry see see ete ty a Re ee Page 34 

Wiseand Warrenton, Colored:o) 90) nse Page 35 
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